Poetry
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Inside me something dwells that screams in fear whenever I espy a cratered place. It can be hard to know when one is near for tiny ones are the most vile disgrace. I cannot help imagining the feel of rubbing those most evil pits and dents. They dance and flicker like a movie reel that…
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Through the window glass I see a bird flying high. She twists and turns on a warm spring breeze. Below her is a field of clover, every purple flower staring up at me. And I watch, silently. The bird flies by the windowglass and sees a face staring out, motionless despite the warm spring breeze.…
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Tell me of a summer’s day when the sunlight shone so bright, chasing loneliness away though the day still turned to night. Tell me of a summer rain, warm and soft as true love’s touch that freed me from the searing pain of longing for you far too much. Tell me of the summer morn,…
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I caught a glimpse of some Eternity as I gazed toward an almost setting sun. And in that moment time stood still, the ache deep in my heart relieved at last as every leaf caught in a gentle breeze stood frozen in a heavenly repose. And as the light turned golden all around a single…
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Last night I dreamed of some far place where time at last stood stood. Before me stood a golden gate atop a grassy hill. And I felt peace within my heart like never once before. I wanted to stay in that place, now and forever more. But then I opened wide my eyes, and, oh!…
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Into the woods I wander searching for a special place that calls to me. And the trees, they guide me to the light within the dark. To my left a river runs, and the wind whispers in the leaves telling me I have found the way. Though the path is long and dark and I…
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Across an ocean black as pitch, some say, there lies a land that even time forgot, an ancient place where dwell forgotten dreams. And if one finds perchance safe passage there by searching darkest depths of memory, a golden city will at last appear. Though don’t be foold by beauty’s shining light, for ‘neath the…
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A breeze caresses my cheek and I hear waves breaking on a sandy shore. Breathing deep the salty air, I take one step into a beam of sun. And I know that it has shone forever. I hear your voice and I walk until the sand gives way to stone beneath my feet, and I…
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One word spoken to the night sky brings the stars crashing down. In their place nothingness. The stars hit the earth and shatter, pieces scattered as far as the mind can see. And the nothingness remains. Now, and forever more.
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The little bird watches from a gilded cage. Singing songs of sunny days, falling leaves, pouring rain. A cold wind blows the treetops, and the little bird watches. Her wings open, ready, but never does the wind lift her up. And she sings on. The gilded cage hangs in the window. I listen to the…